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Lemmy predicts: Chromebooks will become the new Thinkpads (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Maybe this is a hot take. However, a lot of the Chromebooks that were deployed by schools during covid are build like tanks while being super lightweight and having great battery life. Meanwhile the old thinkpads are 10 years old and are probably starting to wear down. Many Chromebooks support coreboot these days so theoretically they have the potential to be more private and secure. Some of them are also arm which means that they are more efficient from an architecture perspective.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

ARM is the biggest reason this is unlikely to happen imo. Software compatibility is key.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How does arm limit that?

arm is up and coming

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For a laptop style system, the vast majority of users expect x86_64 software to just work. There are ARM versions for some things, and some can be recompiled by a knowledgeable user, but most software simply won't run.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

We're at [email protected], hon. The average user uses a package manager. The majority of software is open-source and compiles for ARM just fine. Games excepted, but they won't run on the low specs anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

So?

Arm usage is increasing, not decreasing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

most software simply won’t run.

...for the time being...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Just compile you software for arm. The Debian repos have a huge selection